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Author Notes: This came from my mind when I was a student at The Culinary Institute of America. We had to create a menu item based on where we lived. Since I am from New England I created this burger with ingredients that you can find or originate in New England. This was a hit at both the CIA and at the restaurant I worked at. - Chef Jason —Chef Jason Royal
Food52 Review: We were intrigued not only by the name of this burger, but by the juxtaposition of savory and sweet. This could easily go too far, but Chef Jason manages to rein it in, inspiring harmony rather than a cacophony of flavors. The burger themselves have a faint sweetness from the maple syrup, and this is enhanced by the grilled apples; the salty crunch of the bacon and the tang of cheddar provide the perfect counterpoints. This is a burger that requires a ravenous appetite and begs to be eaten in generous mouthfuls, each including all of the different components. - A&M —The Editors
Makes: 2 large burgers
pound 80-85% lean Black Angus ground beef
cup Pure New England maple syrup, plus more for basting
thick slices applewood smoked bacon
MacIntosh apple
slices Vermont cheddar cheese
Bulkie rolls
Salt and pepper to taste
bottles blueberry beer
- In a medium bowl, combine the beef, 1/4 cup maple syrup, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well using your hands. Form into 2 8-ounce patties. Set aside in the refrigerator.
- Cook the bacon on the grill, in a skillet, or in the oven. Peel and slice the apple. Place in small bowl and sprinkle lemon juice over the slices to prevent browning.
- Place the apple slices on grill and cook for about one minute on each side. Remove and set aside.
- Grill the burgers over high heat, turn after 3 or 4 minutes and move to a cooler part of the grill. Drizzle some maple syrup over the burgers as they cook. Toast the buns as the burgers cook.
- When the burgers are cooked to your liking, take two slices or more of bacon and place on top of each burger. Arrange some apple slices on top of the bacon.
- Place a slice of cheese on top of each burger, cover the grill and let melt for about a minute.
- Place the burgers on the buns.
- Serve with blueberry beer.
- Enjoy.
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Southern Oregon farmers divided on GMO bans
GRANTS PASS — Southern Oregon farmers are choosing sides in a pair of local campaigns to ban genetically modified crops.
Ban supporters say pollen from fields of genetically modified organisms can contaminate organic farms, and they are worried about use of the herbicide Roundup, which GMO plants are designed to resist.
But opponents say the modified crops aren't much different from strains developed by cross-breeding over the centuries and that they shouldn't be told what to grow.
Last year, the Legislature prohibited county-level bans on genetically modified crops but made an exception in Jackson County, where a measure had already qualified for the ballot.
Since then, a similar measure got on the ballot in neighboring Josephine County after a petition drive. Its backers say that if it passes, they will ask the courts to rule that the Legislature acted illegally and that the county ban should stand.
The measures will be up for a vote May 20.
The county campaigns cut across some political fault lines, one farmer opposed to genetically modified crops told the Grants Pass Daily Courier.
"People say it's just a bunch of hippie organic farmers, but it's not," said Jared Watters, who describes himself as conservative and grows more than 1,000 acres of alfalfa and other crops in the Medford-White City area. "We're conventional farmers."
He said he started growing Roundup-resistant alfalfa, but plowed it up when it didn't meet expectations. He said he's dismayed by the hundreds of thousands of dollars that agribusiness giants such as Monsanto and Syngenta are pouring into fighting the bans.
Six major agribusiness contributors had given $380,000 to the campaign committee opposing the measures, early April filings show.
Farmer Bruce Schulz told the Medford Mail Tribune (http://bit.ly/1gPnHRr ) that he grows both conventional and genetically modified alfalfa because some of his customers don't want GMO hay.
He said Roundup is safer than other chemicals, and he figures the yield of the herbicide-resistant crop will likely be double that of the conventional.
"It doesn't take a scientist to figure out which one works better," Schulz says.
If the ban is approved, he said, he'll have to pull out a hay crop that can grow for six to 10 years if managed correctly.
Chuck Burr, president of the Southern Oregon Seed Growers Association, said $4,400 worth of chard seed had to be destroyed on his farm near Ashland because of pollen contamination from a nearby GMO sugar beet field.
Because the 41-mile-long Rogue Valley is so narrow in many places, it's difficult to avoid pollen that can travel for miles and poses a threat to organic farmers and seeders.
As for the herbicide, berry farmer Sam Pennington said he worries about crops that don't die when sprayed.
"Eating that is utterly detrimental to humans," he said. "I live on this Earth, too."
Dalton Straus said he wanted to grow Roundup-resistant alfalfa this year, but he's holding off until he sees the outcome of the ballot measures. Like other GMO proponents, he said there's little difference between manipulating individual genes and cross-breeding plants to improve yields and bug resistance.
"I just don't support taking my right to grow what I want to grow on my land," he said.

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A leading e-commerce marketplace for the construction industry, BuildPoint Corp., Redwood City, Calif., recently announced the BuildPoint Financial Marketplace will offer the industry's first online insurance service. BuildPoint and Gallagher Construction Services recently partnered with six A-rated insurance companies to provide construction professionals with an online insurance service that automates the selection and purchase of builder's risk insurance. By purchasing builder's risk insurance online, contractors can replace time-consuming paperwork with Internet efficiencies—the entire process takes only a few hours. For more information, visit www.buildpoint.com.
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Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, Ill., recently launched its "Some Things Never Go Out of Style" Sweepstakes for electrical contractors. Running June 1 through August 31, the program will include a special drawing, with a 2001 red Corvette convertible as the grand prize. Contractors who place a qualifying order of $2500 excluding tax ($3750 Canadian) with their local Panduit distributor will earn a free genuine leather flight jacket. That same order also enters them into the drawing for the car. For more information, visit www.panduit.com or call toll free (888) 506-5400, ext 1047.


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I think that box, in all it's wear and tear, is bitchin. How many could have possibly survived the nearly eighty years since it was printed?
A fan belt, a distributor cap, a crank handle... that doubles as a lug nut wrench, a couple wrenches, a pair of pliers and a crescent wrench that have been replaced or weren't original to the tool kit, a three way socket wrench... very innovative and cool.. a hammer and a jack with handle. Plus two cool little things, a lock for the spare tire, and a screw on wheel puller to break the rim loose from the axle.


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2018 Hyundai Elantra
SEL 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 6A)
Edmunds Suggested Price
Estimated Payment
Price Analysis
How do we calculate the Edmunds Suggested Price?
The Edmunds Suggested Price is the price that Edmunds recommends you pay before applicable taxes or fees. For this vehicle it is the Edmunds True Market Value price, less any generally currently available customer cash rebates.
This price includes $3,459 in savings and rebates
- Destination Fee $885 Included in MSRP
- Customer Cash expires 9/4-$2,500
- Market Adjustment-$959
- Edmunds Suggested Price$16,696
117 Days on Lot
Selling slowly, this dealer is motivated to sell soon
Vehicle Details
Ext. Color:
Galactic Gray
Int. Color:
Black cloth
Drive Type:
front wheel drive
All Features and Specs
Audio system memory card slot
MP3 player
SiriusXM AM/FM/HD/Satellite Radio
Speed Sensitive Audio Volume Control
Total Number of Speakers: 6
Braking Assist
ABS and Driveline Traction Control
Stability control
Privacy glass: Light
Silver aluminum rims
Wheel Diameter: 16
Wheel Width: 6.5
Driver knee airbags
Urethane steering wheel trim
Urethane shift knob trim
Metal-look dash trim
Metal-look door trim
Metal-look/piano black center console trim
Video Monitor Location: Front
Trip computer
External temperature display
Manufacturer's 0-60mph acceleration time (seconds): 8.3 s
Power remote driver mirror adjustment
Heated driver mirror
Heated passenger mirror
Power remote passenger mirror adjustment
Dual vanity mirrors
Daytime running lights
Audio controls on steering wheel
Mechanical remote trunk release
Front reading lights
Anti-theft alarm system
Cloth seat upholstery
Bucket front seats
Split rear bench
Fold forward seatback rear seats
Tilt and telescopic steering wheel
Speed-proportional electric power steering
Suspension class: Regular
Interior air filtration
Manual front air conditioning
Tire Pressure Monitoring System: Tire specific
Remote activated exterior entry lights
Cargo area light
Max cargo capacity: 14 cu.ft.
Vehicle Emissions: LEV3-ULEV70
Fuel Type: Regular unleaded
Fuel Capacity: 14.0 gal.
Instrumentation: Low fuel level
Clock: In-dash
Headlights off auto delay
Dusk sensing headlights
Coil front spring
Regular front stabilizer bar
Independent front suspension classification
Strut front suspension
Front Independent Suspension
Coil rear spring
Semi-independent rear suspension
Torsion beam rear suspension
Front suspension stabilizer bar
Variable intermittent front wipers
Steel spare wheel rim
Spare Tire Mount Location: Inside under cargo
Black w/metal-look accents grille
Center Console: Full with covered storage
Overhead console: Mini with storage
Curb weight: 2,811 lbs.
Gross vehicle weight: 3,924 lbs.
Overall Length: 179.9"
Overall Width: 70.9"
Overall height: 56.5"
Wheelbase: 106.3"
Front Head Room: 38.8"
Rear Head Room: 37.3"
Front Leg Room: 42.2"
Rear Leg Room: 35.7"
Front Shoulder Room: 56.2"
Rear Shoulder Room: 55.3"
Front Hip Room: 53.4"
Rear Hip Room: 51.9"
Two 12V DC power outlets
Transmission hill holder
Seatbelt pretensioners: Front
Rear center seatbelt: 3-point belt
Door reinforcement: Side-impact door beam
Cupholders: Front and rear
Door pockets: Driver, passenger and rear
Tires: Width: 205 mm
Tires: Profile: 55
Tires: Speed Rating: T
Diameter of tires: 16.0"
Type of tires: AS
Tires: Prefix: P
Left rear passenger door type: Conventional
Rear door type: Trunk
Right rear passenger door type: Conventional
Body-colored bumpers
Window grid and roof mount antenna
4 Door
Driver airbag
Manual child safety locks
Rear View Camera
Rear Collision Warning: Rear Cross-Traffic Alert (RCTA)
1 USB port
Apple CarPlay & Android Auto mirroring
Halogen projector beam headlights
SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Dealer Description
SELL US YOUR CAR FOR $500 MORE THAN CARMAX! PRE-OWNED RATES STARTING @ 1.75% INSTANT CREDIT APPROVALS ONLINE! EXCELLENT / BAD CREDIT OK! ASK FOR THE CARFAX!! The Hyundai Elantra competes with other compact cars such as the Toyota Corolla, Ford Focus, and Honda Civic in one of the most competitive segments in the United States.. Don't overpay for the car you want. Get the right price right here. A perfect cold weather vehicle featuring heated seats. You can open the sunroof and feel the fresh air in this Elantra. This sedan includes: a great fuel rating (EPA estimated 32 MPG combined), rear view camera, power mirrors, smart steering wheel controls and keyless entry.
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Contact Information
Ron Carter Hyundai
18100 Gulf Fwy, Friendswood, TX 77546
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January 23, 2012 – As we start a new year many people are busy trying to keep all those New Year's resolutions they made. However, when it comes to your finances, Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Consumer Advocate Eleanor Blayney, CFP® suggests a more disciplined approach for personal financial success in 2012, one that ties all the components of your financial life together.
"Your finances aren't a menu where you can order a la carte, deciding which items are most important," Blayney says. "The path to financial confidence is a journey with a series of important and interconnected elements that all deserve attention."
As a follow-up to last year's launch of the "Let's Make a Plan" public awareness campaign, Blayney and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards (CFP Board) have developed the "12 for '12 Approach to Financial Confidence." This approach will feature a set of tips each month designed to help people address all the components and steps required for successful personal financial management. Throughout the year, Eleanor will address topics including: establishing realistic goals, tax planning, handling emergencies and risks, investing, retirement, debt management and estate planning.
For the month of January, Blayney looks at the first step in the evaluation of anyone's finances: deciding when you need help organizing and managing your finances.
According to Blayney, the objectivity and expertise of a CFP® professional is called for in the following situations:
If you do need help, notes Blayney, there are resources available for finding and selecting a qualified financial professional, like a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional, who is obligated to place your financial needs first. CFP Board's consumer website www.letsmakeaplan.org offers a searchable list of CFP® professionals that can be sorted by several criteria including geography, specialization and compensation method.
"Knowing if you need help and how to find it is just the first step," Blayney says. "Our 12 for '12 topics will provide relevant financial advice that everyone should consider no matter where they are in life."
12 FOR '12: AN APPROACH TO FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE: In January, CFP Board launched a new initiative called "12 for '12 Approach to Financial Confidence" where all the components and steps for successful personal financial management are presented, one each month throughout the year including: establishing realistic goals, tax planning, emergency and risk management, investing, retirement, debt management, and estate planning.
ABOUT CFP BOARD: The mission of Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. is to benefit the public by granting the CFP® certification and upholding it as the recognized standard of excellence for competent and ethical personal financial planning. The Board of Directors, in furthering CFP Board's mission, acts on behalf of the public, CFP® certificants and other stakeholders. CFP Board owns the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, CFP® (with plaque design) and CFP® (with flame design) in the U.S., which it awards to individuals who successfully complete CFP Board's initial and ongoing certification requirements. CFP Board currently authorizes more than 64,000 individuals to use these marks in the United States.
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Check out reviews left by other students or leave your own review. You could win a free scholarship.Add your Review
Stacey from Albuquerque, NM
Reviewer is A current student here.
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Categories Comments Campus Safety
Campus safety is a top priorority at the University of New Mexico. Every area of campus is covered in Blue emergency polls. These hard to miss polls provide an emergency button and light on campus. Security guards walk campus and the surrounding areas. All dorms, including the off-campus dorms Lobo Village, are well protected as well.
Greek Life
Greek life is an underdog on campus. Especially compared to other schools. With only four sororities and a handful of fraternities greek life lacks numbers. The members of greek life are spririted and succesfull students and it's environment and involvement on campus is exceptional considering it's size.
Clubs and Activities
Campus life is full of clubs of activites. I can rate this to the highest standard. From sporting events, special occasions, and school functions, UNM is decked out to the highest level. From ASUNM (senate) to the Daily Lobo and it's staff, the three-level student union building houses too many clubs and event staff to count. We even have a built in Student-run Credit Union on the bottom floor.
Great for these types of students
Science majors, nursing, business, art, and engineering. Not to mention our medical school is top rated in the country.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Every-one's a Lobo! Those three words are the longest standing tradition the University of New Mexico holds. Every game, academic honoring, school event, gathering, or function and a crowd will break out in this chant. Hearing a crowd of thousands, or even two people, and you'll feel the school spirit rush through your veins.
Bang for the buck
Well New Mexico offers the Lottery Scholarship so every student living in New Mexico with a 3.0 or higher GPA out of high school can attend UNM free of cost. (excluding books, dorms, and other necessities) The Lottery Scholarship is hard to maintain and once you lose it, you can never get it back. However, this doesn't mean tuition is astronomical. In-state tuition adds up to the low number of $3000 dollars a semester for 18 credit hours or full time. So, Bang for the Buck? Yea, it's pretty banging.
What to do for fun
I can't even list everything. University of New Mexico's sporting events are unbelievably exhilarating! The UNM men's lobo basketball team is rated 16th in the nation baby! Attending a basketball game in the nationally ranked arena The Pit is an experience a college student will never forget.
Food and Dining
The food is great, but sometimes inconvenient, depending on one's campus location. The sub has a variety of delicious student friendly dining options, however, facilities further from central campus only offer small markets and snack bars. Laposada is the buffet style dorm cafeteria and I can vow that the food is, for lack of a better word, YUMMY!
Dorm Life
Impeccable! Want to live on campus? Casas del Rio are the brand new up-to-date, clean, techy, safe, and fun dorms to live in. And for all of the off campus living? One year old Lobo Village is the spot to be.
Academic Rigor
Curriculum is difficult but tackleable. If students dedicate enough time to their school work they will have no problem with any of their classes. All of the facilities, TA's, Online-learning tools (WebCT), teachers, and the overrall education are topnotch.
Tips for prospective students
Live on campus! The new dorms Casas del Rio are amazing! You'll love spending time on campus in these affordable, cleanly, and to die for dorms! The experience from living on campus does not compare to life on the outside. The friends, education, environment, memories, and traditions are things that will stay with you for life. Starting your freshman year.
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Three sentences isn't enough to describe this cultural and exhilarating school. The University of New Mexico provides excellent education in a beautiful environment. The southwestern campus is dazzling, the teachers are inspiring, and the opportunities this school provides are endless.
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there is security.
Greek Life
Clubs and Activities
Great for these types of students
For students are just getting out of college.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Bang for the buck
1000$ a semester.
What to do for fun
After studying you may want to cruise around Taos and find fun outdoor activities.
Food and Dining
There is a cafe and is delicious
Dorm Life
There are no dorms.
Academic Rigor
Academically they challenge you but if you do not understand the work you may get free tutoring services.
Tips for prospective students
This college allows to take a head start in college.
In three sentences
University of New Mexico- Taos is an excellent branch. It is a great college to start out at. They also provide bachelor and masters programs.
Daniel from Penasco, NM
Reviewer is A current student here.
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Categories Comments Great for these types of students
Students fresh from high-school or those returning after long absences.
Tips for prospective students
Start early. While the admission process may be short the sooner you are admitted, the sooner you can get on track. The difficulty lies in picking the right classes for you, amongst the limited number. On the other hand classes like psychology or English fill up fast.
Bang for the buck
Compared to most schools in the are UNM-Taos is cheap for a full four year college experience. All of the classes are on par with Main Campus standard, much smaller and cheaper. The biggest issue is the limited number of classes. It's difficult to pick classes on a set schedule, and be sure you'll fit in the classes.
Am enjoying being here
UNM-Taos is a great start for students fresh from high-school or students returning from extended absences. The staff is almost always friendly and happy to help/
Am learning a lot
The majority of Teachers at UNM-Taos are very knowledgeable in their fields. The science, English and Math departments are particularly strong, if a bit limited in classes.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The 38 Studios bankruptcy trustee wants to explore opening a second legal front in the bid to recoup losses from Rhode Island's failed $75 million investment in former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's defunct video game company.
The Economic Development Corp. last week voted to allow the trustee to use up to $150,000 in bankruptcy funds to investigate potential claims against former officers and directors at 38 Studios.
The EDC already is suing Schilling and some of its former officials. The suit claims the EDC board was misled into approving a $75 million loan guarantee for the company in 2010.
38 Studios went bankrupt last year. The state is responsible for $90 million in outstanding debt.
A Schilling attorney has called the EDC's claims baseless.


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Charlotte pharmacy worker accused of stealing $60K in pills
Charlotte pharmacy worker accused of stealing $60K in pills
A pharmacy technician at a North Carolina Target has been arrested on suspicion of stealing more than 10,000 prescription pills from her workplace.
Jennifer Renee Brandon, 31, was charged with trafficking a Schedule III controlled substance, WCNC reported.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police allege Brandon had stolen 40-50 hydrocodone pills per shift since October. The estimated value of the stolen pills is $60,000.
Brandon was responsible for keeping the pharmacy stocked, police said.
Brandon was held under a $250,000 secured bond. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said this was one of the largest pharmacy thefts they've ever investigated.


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Last month we asked for your help choosing the next High Line Print for our merchandise program that supports the High Line's maintenance and operations.
Drawing from a wealth of vibrant photographs in the High Line Flickr Pool, we narrowed it down to five of our favorites, and we asked you to help pick the winner.
More than 1,000 fans on Facebook voted for their favorite photograph, selecting an enchanting nightscape by Justin Lintz as the next High Line Print.
Follow us after the jump for more examples of Justin's great work.
Justin Lintz's love of photography developed as he explored digital photography toward the end of high school and through college. What began as a way of documenting a family trip to Alaska with a simple point-and-shoot camera quickly became a passionate artistic pursuit. "I began reading a lot about photography on Digital Photography Review and discovered the world of digital SLRs," Justin recalls. Making the switch to a more professional camera allowed him to capture better photos and only increased his interest in the art form.
See more of Justin's work on Flickr where you'll find a mixture of vibrant New York City street scenes, beautiful foliage and blooms, and interesting characters. Justin cites Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Trent Parke, Garry Winogrand, and other photographers from Magnum Photos as inspiration.
"I really enjoy street photography even though I don't do as much of it myself as I would like – it's a bit nerve-racking taking photos of strangers and not knowing how they will react," Justin says. "I was never a fan of posed shots. Street photography captures scenes from everyday life that occur for only brief a moment. It really takes a good eye to spot those moments and capture them."
Below are a few of our favorite photos that Justin has taken at the High Line.
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fun. rocker Jack Antonoff met his now-girlfriend Lena Dunham on a blind date set up by their mutual friend, comedian Mike Birbiglia.
The guitarist reveals he didn't know much about Girls creator and star Dunham before the 2012 date, so he made sure he did a little research before going out with her.
He tells New York magazine, "It was a blind date by modern standards. I mean, I used the Internet (to find out more about her)."
Antonoff, who dated Hollywood beauty Scarlett Johansson in high school, needn't have worried - the pair hit it off straight away.
He explains, "I told Lena everything about my whole life, because when you really like someone, you want them to know everything about you."
The couple is now looking towards the future and Antonoff reveals he is eager to settle down and start a family.
The 30 year old says, "It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
"I'm not, like, 24 or 22. I'm no longer in the phase of my life where I talk about everything as in the future. Like, I'm in the future."
However, the musician admits he and Dunham are so busy, they may have to wait a while: "It's hard to imagine when the right time is because things are so crazy at the moment."


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I am a tournament and league 4.0 that lives less than 5 minutes away from Carmichael Park and I am also a member of Gold River if you ever want to hit.
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I'm a high-end 3.5 player. I'm trying to get back in shape.
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Many people are making fun of the New Orleans NBA team for the notion they're going to change their nickname from the borrowed-from-Charlotte Hornets moniker to the Pelicans.
But at least one of the Saints is smart enough to not make too much fun, given the joint ownership of the NFL and NBA franchises.
"For one, because my boss is that boss [owner Tom Benson]," Saints tackle Zach Strief said, via Larry Holder of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "So I'm not lost in the fact that if Mr. Benson likes that name, I'm all for it."
Other locally pertinent names such as Brass and Krewe were suggested, and Roman Harper thought Sauce might be a good name for a team.
Others had ideas of varying degrees of logic and marketability, such as Curtis Lofton's joke about "Nutria Rats," which is apparently a small fur-bearing critter that lives in swamps.
"You want something tough," Lofton said. "That [Pelicans] doesn't sound too tough."
"If it's up to me, I'd probably keep it simple, keep it sweet. Probably like the Sabertooths or something," defensive end Cam Jordan said. "It doesn't matter [that it doesn't have any ties to New Orleans]. It sounds awesome. Maybe the Dragons. I'm voting for something like a monster."
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Maybe it will grow on us. But I agree that something simple might be better.
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As the word spread Thursday of the difficulty that oil companies were having in delivering gasoline to service stations, panic set in from New Jersey to New York City, reaching into the lower reaches of the Hudson Valley.
By late afternoon, vehicles were lined up for blocks at some gas stations in the region. Compounding the problem was the continued major power outage with people buying generators in record numbers, adding to the demand at the pumps.
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Alexis Eggleton of Pine Bush was in Sullivan County during the afternoon and saw no problems. When she got back into northern Orange County around dinner time, that's when she saw lines at gas stations.
"All three gas stations has 20-plus cars in line, had town of Crawford (Police) out there trying to keep everyone calm and trying to keep everybody together," she said. "I actually witnessed a fender-bender with people trying to figure where to go."
Orange County Executive Edward Diana spoke with state officials in Albany on Thursday and said supplies of gasoline are on their way to the region, "yet residents should know the process will take time." He said as a temporary solution is sought, "I advise residents to be prudent with their supply and limit any unnecessary travel. I also ask for your continued cooperation and patience during these difficult times by showing mutual respect for one another."
Rockland County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef had a similar message for the public. "I encourage consumers to conserve fuel and avoid unnecessary driving as stations are being reopened and restocked. Many of our stations have shut due to flooding, lack of power, or no fuel."
Vanderhoef said the county expects independent distributors "to move with deliberate speed to help meet consumer demand for fuel. In addition, the County will do all in its power to ensure that emergency responders and other essential service providers requesting fuel have an adequate supply. During this period, which we hope will be very short, I urge all to conserve fuel when possible and exercise patience as our gas stations are resupplied."


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Maurice Edu is the latest U.S. national team player to return to Major League Soccer.
The Philadelphia Union said Monday they had acquired the 27-year-old American midfielder from Stoke of England's Premier League and have an option to purchase his rights.
A member of the 2010 U.S. World Cup team who has 45 international appearances, Edu will be a designated player whose salary counts only partially against the cap.
The MLS Rookie of the Year in 2007 with Toronto, Edu transferred to Scotland's Glasgow Rangers in August 2008.
He moved to Stoke in August 2012 but made just one appearance, as an 80th-minute substitute against Liverpool that Oct. 7. He had about a dozen appearances for Turkey's Bursaspor during a loan in 2012-13.
Brek Shea, another American midfielder with little playing time at Stoke, was loaned to Barnsley of the second-tier League Championship on Jan. 1.
Atrtacker Clint Dempsey left Tottenham and rejoined MLS with Seattle last summer, and Toronto acquired midfielder Michael Bradley from Roma this month. In addition, defender Michael Parkhurst joined Columbus last week from Germany's Augsburg.
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Looking for an excellent resource to teach children Helen Keller's inspiring story? This website presents Keller's life through five exhibits. Each exhibit examines a different period of her life, from childhood through her career as an international champion of the blind. Together, the exhibits contain more than 30 photographs. The site also includes a chronology of Keller's life. Read more here.
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2011: All-America in 4x100 and 4x400 relay (outdoor) ... New England Division III champion in 4x200 relay (outdoor) and 4x100 relay (outdoor) … NEWMAC champion in 4x100 relay … NCAA Division III All-Region in 55HH, long jump, triple jump (outdoor); 100m, 100HH (outdoor) … All-New England in 4x100 relay (outdoor) … set MIT indoor record in long jump (17-6.75 feet) and 4x200 relay (1:44.57) … set MIT outdoor record in 4x100 relay (46.93 seconds) … set MIT indoor rookie record in 55-meters (7.46 seconds) … set MIT outdoor rookie record in 100m (12.58 seconds).
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More than $174 million in donations has been raised for those affected in New York and New Jersey by Superstorm Sandy, which devastated parts of the Atlantic coast in late October.
"The more affluent and well-insured people will figure a way to recover their lives, but there are a lot of people in New York who really won't have that capacity and can't speak out for themselves," says Stacy Palmer, the editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Palmer tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All Things Considered, that nonprofits in New York are also watching out for those among the poor and immigrant communities who were affected by the storm.
"There are a lot of people who can't speak English and so can't get typical disaster aid," she says. "Making sure that somebody looks out for those poor, very vulnerable people who are living in the city, that's one of the lessons that certainly previous disasters have taught us."
Stepping into the breach to assist with disaster aid is Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It might seem strange, but it makes sense that Occupy Wall Street would be great at doing Sandy relief: It has networks of organizers and it's been tested camping out in adverse situations.
Thaddeus Umpster, an Occupy protester, told NPR's Margot Adler that after what he and others experienced during Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, they were prepared to help in the storm relief effort.
"When the police took away our generators, we built bicycle-powered generators," he says, "and because of that the day after the storm we had bicycle-powered generators set up on the Lower East Side."
Other former Occupy Wall Street protesters – now working with Occupy Sandy – are helping out with food preparation, unloading supplies and giving medical checks to homebound residents. Occupy Sandy was one of the first organizations on the ground in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood, but now it is working with Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Any kind of giving presages the question: What happened with the money?
While still managing editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Dan Shea's reporting followed some of that relief money in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Shea says a lot of people wanted to help Katrina victims immediately after the storm; a lot of money came flowing in, even from overseas, but then came the long-term recovery.
"What happens in these disasters is half of all giving happens in the first two weeks and tends to be focused on providing initial shelter, food and some additional cash," Shea tells NPR's Lyden. "The problem ... is that phase is over-covered, while [during] the longer-term recovery phase, the attention and the money move on and people are in for a very long slog."
Although many of the first responder groups, like the Red Cross, for instance, do a great job with the initial response, Shea says, they often disappear quickly. While he is not suggesting people not donate to the first-responder organizations, he asks that those interested in giving think of the long term as well.
"Perhaps look up local charities who are into the longer housing rebuilding," he says.
Shea says many of the lessons from Katrina were evident in the early response to Sandy, but he adds we won't know for some time how well the long-term recovery efforts will pan out.
"I think people in New York are going to look back four or five years from now, to wonder how much of that initial flow of funds and effort should have been held back a little bit to in order to focus on the more difficult phase two," he says. "The money dries up, the interest dries up and then you have people fall to the wayside."
In June, Shea quit the Times-Picayune ahead of projected layoffs. Now he's volunteering his time and expertise at the St. Bernard Project, which helps rebuild disaster-affected communities.
Shea says the lessons he's learned are that while FEMA and the Red Cross are essential up front, it's transparency and consistency that are needed for the long haul.
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This week marks the launch of a national campaign called Giving Tuesday, an effort to encourage people to give not just money, but also their time.
"It's a day of thanks after Black Friday and Cyber Monday," says Eileen Heisman, the CEO of National Philanthropic Trust.
She offers advice to potential donors to be loyal in their giving because it helps build planning.
"It's really expensive for charities to find new donors and to raise money, so by doing fewer larger gifts, and then staying with them for three to five years, you're actually helping the charity plan better and it's easier for them to meet their mission," Heisman tells NPR's Lyden.
One common mistake people make, Heisman says, is that they often give to a very specific project or narrow program within a charity. These "restricted gifts" don't help a charity out with its other needs such as computers, training and maintaining facilities.
"Really, if you like a charity and you're going to give a small gift, consider giving an unrestricted gift," she says. "It really is the hardest money for them to raise ... [and] charities that are well run will use it wisely, I promise you."
It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden. Guy Raz is away.
Giving - whether it's tithing to a church, funding your local opera house or that international relief effort, we give, especially this time of year. The Romans considered ostentatious giving a sign of wealth.
Americans pretty much leave that to celebrities while the rest of us pick up the slack, even if it's just 25 bucks to a nonprofit. Our cover story today: Giving. This week marks the launch of a national campaign called Giving Tuesday. It's an effort to encourage people to give, not just money but also their time.
EILEEN HEISMAN: It's a day of thanks after Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
LYDEN: Eileen Heisman is the CEO of the National Philanthropic Trust. She advises donors to be loyal in their giving because it helps build planning.
HEISMAN: It's really expensive for charities to find new donors and to raise money. And so by doing fewer larger gifts and then staying with them for three to five years, you're actually helping the charity plan better and it's easier for them to meet their mission.
LYDEN: What are some of the common mistakes then that people make?
HEISMAN: One of the things people do is they give to very specific narrow projects. It's very hard for charities to raise overhead. And they need computers. They need good phone systems. They need clean offices. And a lot of donors just want to give to a narrow program. And really, if you like a charity and you're going to give a small gift, consider giving an unrestricted gift because it really is the hardest money for them to raise.
LYDEN: You're urging people to give unrestricted gifts, but many times when people, say, give to a hospital or an organization that works with children, they want it not to go to administrative costs. How do you make that argument?
HEISMAN: Charities are usually living on very small budgets. And when donors give a lot of restricted gifts, then you can't have the staff it takes to provide those programs. And it's a very big discussion inside the charitable arena. People that work in nonprofits know how hard it is to raise money to actually run the programs to make sure they have good leadership, make sure people are trained well. And those all come from unrestricted dollars. So for a charity to run well, it needs program money for specific programs, but it also needs unrestricted dollars. Charities that are well-run will use it wisely, I promise you.
LYDEN: This year, no story on giving could detour around Hurricane Sandy. Already, over 174 million in donations has been raised for those affected in New York and New Jersey. Stacy Palmer is the editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
STACY PALMER: The more affluent and well-insured people will figure out a way to recover their lives, but there are a lot of people in New York who really won't have that capacity and can't speak out for themselves. The other thing that a lot of nonprofits in New York are really watching out for is the poor and the multicultural nature of this disaster. There are a lot of people who can't speak English and so can't get typical disaster aid. So making sure that somebody looks out for those poor, very vulnerable people who are living in the city, that's one of the lessons that certainly previous disasters have taught us.
LYDEN: Indeed, stepping into the breach: Occupy Sandy, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's redeployed. NPR's Margot Adler went to take a look.
MARGOT ADLER, BYLINE: It actually makes sense that Occupy Wall Street would be great at doing Sandy relief. They have networks of organizers. They've been tested in adverse situations - camping out. Take this story from Thaddeus Umpster - that's what he said his name was - who is working at Occupy Sandy's Brooklyn distribution center. He says last year in Zuccotti Park...
THADDEUS UMPSTER: When the police took away our generators, we built bicycle-powered generators. And because of that, the day after the storm, we had bicycle-powered generators set up on the Lower East Side.
ADLER: Or listen to Kirby Desmarais who lives in Red Hook and works with Occupy Sandy there. The people who are cooking our meals, she says...
KIRBY DESMARAIS: They are out of Zuccotti Park's kitchen. They learned the skills to be able to service a community in need on that level.
ADLER: And after all, if you learned how to cook meals for 1,000 people camping out in Zuccotti Park, it stands to reason that you could do that for people without power in the Rockaways. Desmarais, who has been helping to feed and give medical checks to homebound residents in Red Hook's public housing unit, says they were the first on the ground in Red Hook. But now they're working together with the Red Cross, with FEMA, with everybody.
There's a big mix of people here, many with no particular interest in Occupy. Take Jacqueline Hawkrider(ph), a waitress and singer-songwriter from Queens who wanted to volunteer for a day, heard about a bunch of possibilities.
JACQUELINE HAWKRIDER: And Occupy Sandy was the one that everyone was like, this is so well-run. There's a website. You can just show up at any place and they'll put you somewhere.
ADLER: Hawkrider, along with Cheryl Clark(ph), also from Queens, have just gutted a flooded house on Beach Channel Drive in the Rockaways. You could see the water line halfway up the door. As water rose, the owner was stuck upstairs for 19 hours.
CHERYL CLARK: Everything had to be taken out.
HAWKRIDER: Calendars with his grandchildren on it.
CLARK: We knocked all the sheetrock off the walls. It's just a frame inside.
ADLER: The central distribution hub for Occupy Sandy is in a church in Brooklyn. When I arrived, there was a huge UPS truck outside and some 20 volunteers unloading the truck. Occupy Sandy opened a gift registry on Amazon. They list people's needs, cleaning supplies, generators, and people can donate through Amazon. When I left the church an hour later, they were still unloading. All new volunteers fill out information and describe their skills, and there's an orientation.
DAMIEN CRISP: This is Occupy Sandy Relief. It's organized by Occupy Wall Street.
ADLER: That's the only time I really heard about Occupy Wall Street. Damien Crisp talks to 12 new volunteers about the difference between charity - top-down giving, he says - and mutual aid, helping people to help themselves. The orientation, though short, kind of reminded me of when I was trained for Mississippi voter registration in the 1960s.
For example, don't assume you know what people need. And given a number of articles about tensions between wealthy volunteers doing Sandy relief and people in poor neighborhoods, it was striking to hear Crisp say don't take photographs.
CRISP: We are not there to be disaster tourists. We don't want to establish ourselves as the other. We don't want to establish anyone in a community as the other.
ADLER: In the basement, there's a kitchen where I'm not allowed to walk without a hairnet. Bob Solen(ph) is on a computer coordinating meals.
BOB SOLEN: Our communications group says, you know, we need food for 500 people in Staten Island. Can you do it? We have a kitchen here. We have a kitchen in Bay Ridge. Thank God for Google docs and stuff because we're coordinating it mostly by...
ADLER: So you're basically doing it on laptop?
SOLEN: By laptops. And dispatch has got - they know where the drivers are and when we have them. And it's amazing how well it works.
ADLER: You hear a few grumbles. It's all sugar. It's not changing the system, one occupier told me. But besides goodwill and good press coverage, it's clear over the last year a whole bunch of young people learned some serious skills that can be put to many different uses. Margot Adler, NPR News, New York.
LYDEN: So any kind of giving presages the question: What happened to my money? Especially with disasters like Hurricane Katrina in 2005, people want to know how all that aid is being used. While he was still managing editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Dan Shea's reporting followed the money.
He says immediately after the storm, lots of people wanted to help Katrina victims and lots of money came flowing in, even from overseas. Then came long-term recovery.
DAN SHEA: What happens in these disasters is, historically, half of all giving is in the first two weeks. And it tends to be focused on providing initial shelter, initial food, some additional cash that you may need to replace your clothing or other small items. The problem with our response as a people and as charitable donors is that phase is over covered, while the longer-term recovery phase, the attention and the money move on and then people are in for the very long slog.
LYDEN: People are thinking that what they're giving to the Red Cross is going to rebuild homes, but, in fact, it isn't really going to rebuild homes.
SHEA: The situation with the Red Cross, they are the donor of choice. Americans are moved by plights and want to give. Whether it's in the form of a text or on the iTunes store, there are so many ways to give now. The Red Cross swallows that all in, but they have pretty limited impact in the longer term. They have a congressional mandate to be a first responder and they do provide shelter, but they disappear very quickly, along with many other groups.
LYDEN: We don't want to give the impression that people ought not to give to organizations like the Red Cross or the Salvation Army. They were particularly helpful right after the storm. Tell us why.
SHEA: Not for a moment do I suggest people don't respond to their charitable instinct. And the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Save the Children, any of the first responders, do fantastic work. They do have an impact on people's lives when they're most vulnerable. I would ask Americans and anyone who was interested in the plight of the citizens of metropolitan New York to think long term as well. Perhaps look up local charities who are into these longer-term housing rebuilding.
LYDEN: It's interesting. Here we are, seven years on from Katrina, from the hurricane of September 2005, and we're looking at another hurricane with billions of dollars' worth of damage. What lessons do you think have been learned from Katrina?
SHEA: As a country, we're doing a much better job with the initial response. An individual who's been cold in their home, who's very frustrated might not think the aid has come quickly enough in New York and New Jersey, but if you look at it historically, it was an enormous response at all levels of government and through the nonprofit community.
I think people in New York are going to look back four or five years from now to wonder how much of that initial flow of funds and initial effort should have been held back a little bit in order to focus on the much more difficult phase two, which is not the response but the recovery. The money dries up, the interest dries up. Then you have people fall by the wayside, people who lack the financial or even psychological means to deal with the recovery. And then you're really going to need to rely on very small, very underfunded local charities to help these people for years to come.
LYDEN: In June, Dan Shea quit the paper ahead of projected layoffs. Now he's volunteering his time and expertise at the St. Bernard Project, which is helping with rebuilding. But on and off newspapering, he says the lessons he's learned are these: While FEMA and the Red Cross are essential up front, it's transparency and consistency that are needed for the long haul. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Learn how working on your top-end sprinting speed can help make you a better marathoner.
As training theory continues to evolve, coaches and exercise scientists are continuing to uncover more effective and efficient ways to train and get results at long distance racing. In particular, coaches now understand the importance of speed development (recruiting maximum muscle fibers per stride, developing neuromuscular coordination, and improving efficiency) – even for long distance runners, who race at paces far slower than their top-end speed.
In fact, if you're a runner who focuses on racing the half marathons and marathons, speed development is even more important than you may realize.
Most marathoners devote a vast majority of their training to logging lots of miles and performing challenging threshold runs, which, of course, are critical components to running your best at the 26.2-mile distance. As a result, most marathoners may go years without running faster than 5K pace in training. Consequently, they lose their ability to generate explosive muscle power, which results in the decline of running efficiency and economy and, eventually, form starts to break down. This loss of speed is even more pronounced with age, as studies show speed is the first of your abilities to deteriorate as you get older.
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No place like home: London Olympic organizers show off Athletes Village apartments
LONDON (AP) ' The beds can handle both the very tall and the very small, the sofas are electric aqua with hot pink cushions and every suite gets a balcony.
Olympic organizers unveiled the first furnished apartments in London's Athletes Village on Thursday, featuring beds that can be extended and mattresses that were tested by former athletes to make sure they were neither too hard nor too soft.
The beds also had duvets decorated with squares featuring all the Olympic sports.
"A track is a track and a swimming pool is a swimming pool but this is where the athletes will spend most of their time," said Jonathan Edwards, the 2000 Olympic triple-jump champion and chair of London 2012's athletes committee.
Edwards said the committee focused on "nitty-gritty detail" to make the 2,818 apartments on the northeast edge of Olympic Park homey and comfortable. They made sure suitcases could fit under the bed, hooks were around to hang things on, bedside lamps actually worked.
"Little things like that are things that matter to athletes," said Edwards. "We are not looking for a five-star resort experience. We are actually looking for the basics to be taken care of to make sure they can do their very best."
That includes blackout curtains in every room so competitors can get a good night's sleep.
Outside, workers were busy rolling out grass turf. Trees with big bags around their roots were ready to be planted.
Beyond the home decor tour, which featured dozens of journalists packed into a very small space, the village's general manager Tom Sainsbury tried to answer anything and everything about the whole Olympic Village experience.
Holiday Inn personnel from around the world will help athletes who lose keys. There will be a bank, cash machines, a hairdresser and a general store. There will be no curfews. No alcohol will be sold. The swimmers have promised to behave (good luck with that one!).
"The athletes will respect each other," Sainsbury repeated.
And if they don't want to behave, London and all its loud, often obnoxious charms lies just outside the village's doorstep.
Organizers say blocs of rooms have been awarded to national Olympic committees who get to decide who rooms with whom. No effort will be made to separate athletes from countries in conflict.
At the village, there will be peace, organizers declared ' and if that doesn't work, there is fiber-optic broadband to keep athletes busy and out of trouble.


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The final report for July from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows a slight improvement in drought conditions for the lower Southeast, but not significant enough to improve crop and topsoil conditions in parts of Alabama and Georgia.
The northwestern edge of Alabama categorized as being in an "exceptional" drought for much of the year has shrunken slightly, but major precipitation deficits remained over the Southeast, with increasing topsoil shortages and severe crop impacts.
Since Jan. 1, a large swath from western Florida to Tennessee and the southwestern tip of North Carolina has been 15 to 20 inches below normal, with the drought epicenter in eastern to northeastern Alabama still a staggering 25 inches behind, or less than 50 percent of normal precipitation.
Huntsville and Cullman, Ala., were still at record lows for year-to-date precipitation. Poor to very poor topsoil percentages ranged from 48 percent across Georgia to 61 percent in North Carolina, 68 percent across South Carolina and 75 percent in Tennessee.
In Alabama, topsoil conditions in the last week of July were 69 percent poor to very poor, despite scattered rainfall in the north.
Local rains brought short-term relief to some crops and pastures, but many crops suffered severe damage.
In Alabama, 80 percent of the corn crop was still rated poor to very poor, soybeans 61 percent, and cotton 49 percent. In Georgia, 48 percent of the corn crop rated poor to very poor, pastures 43 percent, cotton 21 percent, peanuts 16 percent, and soybeans 13 percent.
In Tennessee, ponds were going dry with 61 percent of hay in poor to very poor condition and 47 percent for corn.
In Georgia, the 2007 growing season has been a memorable one for peanut producers. "I don't believe anyone who is active in peanut production has seen a year like we've experienced this year, says John Beasley, University of Georgia Extension peanut specialist.
People who were working with the University of Georgia in the mid-1950s say the closest comparison is the drought of 1954, says Beasley. "What we've experienced thus far, particularly through the early spring, is nothing like we've ever seen. Our growers in the four Southeast states have never had a challenge like this — we're still suffering from the remnants of the drought," he says.
The drought actually began about one year ago, he adds. "We had really good production years back in 2003 and 2005. Last year, we had a drought during the first part of the growing season. It carried on into the latter part of the season, but then we started getting rainfall, and we made a somewhat decent peanut crop in 2006," he says.
During the past fall and winter months, precipitation was well below normal in Georgia and other parts of the Southeast, says Beasley. "Then, when we got into February, March, April and May with no rain or minimal rainfall amounts, then it meant we had no subsoil moisture. It puts you in a very difficult situation, and that's what we've found this year," says the agronomist.
A large percentage of the lower Southeastern peanut crop was planted during the last week of May and the first two weeks of June, he says. "In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, whenever we got to July 4, we had a pretty decent handle on the status of our peanut crop. It's sad to say, but when we got to July 4 this year, we had some fields that were just cracking. Either peanuts were planted early and they never made it up, or they were planted much later," says Beasley.
Tropical Storm Barry passed through the region in early June, bringing rainfall to the eastern half of the Georgia peanut belt but missing the Alabama, west Georgia and west Florida regions, he says.
"We've had scattered showers since that time. But I'm still hearing of some growers who are talking about abandoning acres because there's no hope for their fields. For those fields that are up and have received rain or that have been irrigated, the peanuts look pretty good. A lot will depend on the amount of rainfall we receive through August. We have to get well into September with good, uniform rainfall before we have a chance at making good peanut crop," says Beasley.
Peanut pest problems this season in Georgia have been focused primarily on weed management, he says. "Whenever you have a dry spring, weed management can be difficult, even under irrigation. Herbicide-resistant weeds continue to be a problem, and insect injury and damage has already started, especially from lesser cornstalk borers" he said in late July.
Lesser cornstalk borers can be expected to be a problem in dry, sandy soils, says Beasley. "We've seen reports of cutworms and corn earworms, and we'll always have disease problems. Right now, it's mostly leafspot and white mold," he says.
He advises growers to continue monitoring their fields for lesser cornstalk borers, cutworms and corn earworms. "Last year, cutworms threw us a curveball. We weren't expecting them, but they were there in large numbers."
Many Georgia producers have already irrigated their crops numerous times just to get the peanuts up and growing, says Beasley. "In 2004, we were talking about irrigation costs of about $5.25 per acre inch. That cost was about $8 in 2005 and $12 in 2006. Already, we're seeing costs this year in excess of $15 to put an inch of water on one acre," he says.
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A study due next month should help officials decide whether to install a controversial system that some say will reverse the impact of beach erosion.
FLAGLER BEACH — To find the top priority for leaders in Flagler Beach, look no further than the name of the small town.
The beach.
A study due next month should help officials decide whether to install a controversial system that some say will reverse the impact of beach erosion. The long-awaited opening of the city-owned pier's restaurant is set to welcome its first customers early this year. To accommodate diners and beach-goers, leaders also are exploring ways to add more parking to the downtown area and weighing whether to charge drivers for those spaces.
"We're trying to keep it small-town and friendly but at the same time be progressive," City Commissioner Marshall Shupe said about changes in the next year.
Part of that progressive push is a desire to attract innovators. Since Flagler Beach and the rest of the county are filled with home-based businesses, leaders should support that type of development, even turning Flagler Beach into "the silicon valley of Flagler" by attracting more people with technical know-how, said Joseph Pozzuoli, chairman of the Flagler Beach Chamber of Commerce & Affiliates.
"Our residents, our businesses, have to be a little edgy, a little experimental and brilliantly diverse because we don't have an industry, one industry," said Pozzuoli, an architect whose office is in downtown Flagler Beach.
One of the first items city leaders expect to tackle in 2013 is certainly experimental, some say. Shupe and his colleagues will decide whether to move forward with an undercurrent stabilizer system that promises to replenish sand on the beach.
The Holmberg Technologies system relies on fabric tubes filled with a concrete slurry placed hundreds of feet perpendicular to the beach. As currents and waves pass over the tubes, sand is pushed toward the shore. With time, sand buries the system. In the fall, the city landed $50,000 in bed tax dollars to pay for a study to determine, among other things, the cost of the project. But some officials still have doubts about whether they can pay for the project, which would likely total in the millions, or if they can secure state and federal permits to install it.
"That's always the biggest problem — where are you going to get the money to fund a 1 million or 10 million (dollar) project?" Commissioner Joy McGrew said.
City leaders are also anticipating the opening of the Funky Pelican, which will replace what many said was an outdated establishment at the Flagler Beach pier. The new eatery will bring in revenue to the city and could benefit other local businesses, leaders say.
"We're hoping the pier restaurant is going to be a spectacular success," Commission Vice Chairman Steve Settle said.
Restaurant owner Ray Barshay signed a 10-year lease in the space more than a year ago. The Funky Pelican will open its doors in mid-January, Barshay said Monday.
"It certainly captures the views of what we have to offer," said Pozzuoli, the project's architect. "We're a beachside town — you can sit and eat and dine at the ocean. It's just wonderful."
Relieving congestion and providing more parking around the pier and downtown area is another likely item on the commission's plate this year. Doing so should encourage more people to patronize businesses before or after they use the beach, Settle said.
"There's a number of studies that have told us in the central downtown area, we need to have foot traffic," he said.
Some, including McGrew, say the city should consider asking visitors who use the beach to chip in for the costs of garbage pick-up and facility maintenance by paying for their parking.
"I think we've come to that point in time where, the people who come to our beach, they need to help pay for the upkeep of the beach," McGrew said.


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thanks Roger, appreciate your help. Yes when i saw the video i was a bit surprised how tall i was standing also. Funny how what you think you're doing is quite different to what you are doing.
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Hi Mitchiedog,
Yes, video can reveal what's really going on in painful detail.
If you stand that tall all the time, it's pretty clear that you probably have never really experienced the amount of support your rig can provide, and since you don't have it fully raked back and you aren't getting all your weight on to the rig, you also probably have never experienced what full mast foot pressure can do.
You are in for a major change in paradigm here.
When you get out again, try to get the rig all the way back to where the foot of the sail is parallel to the water (or the deck of your board).
You are going to have to really concentrate on making the board flat to the water (rail to rail or the "roll" axis) because as you bring the rig back more, any upwind rail down situation is going to make the board "crank" upwind in a heartbeat.
If nothing else, try to start off with your board going further downwind.
That's not going to be a probolem becuase we have established that you can get back upwind real easy.
Also, try the inboard footstrap positions as being a bit closer to the center of your board can help you to not rail the board so much.
Ultimately, you will probably want them outboard, but until you get beyond the current issues inboard might be alot better.
Hope this helps,
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Hi again,
There is nothing quite like seeing yourself from another perspective! I can well remember my first, 10th and 50th revelations by video. It really helps.
I agree with everything that Roger said. And, being female, I can't help adding one more thing. In the techno-speak of windsurfing, we talk about the "center of effort" in the sail (the focus point of the sail's "power") and the "center of lateral resistance" (the focus of sideways resistance). When sailing in non-planing mode, and/or with a centerboard down, you go straight by having the CE over the CLR, to steer downwind the CE is leaned forward of the CLR, and to steer upwind the CE is moved aft of the CLR. Basic stuff.
Once you get up and planing, and without a centerboard, the sides of the board and the fin become the CLR and are thus farther back on the board than they were when the whole board was in the water. A common problem is that sailors progressing through this stage are used to thinking of sheeting in as being what increases the speed and the transition to planing. However, one must still remember to balance the CE over the newly farther back CLR. If you don't begin to rake the rig back as you pick up speed, you end up sort of balancing forces but at the expense of ease of sailing.
By moving the mastfoot back, it will help balance the CE and make the sailing more comfortable and easy. You will plane more easily, and be able to lean back against the pull of the rig more effortlessly. Additionally, the mastfoot pressure will be more effective as Roger has pointed out so well.
Move the mast back a bit at a time so that the differences won't be too extreme, and so that you can really begin to feel the difference.
keep up the good work,
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By Jason Alderman
When it comes to inflation, 2009 was a good news/bad news kind of year – with a few mixed messages thrown in for good measure.
According to one widely used inflation measurement, the Department of Labor's Consumer Price Index for urban consumers (CPI-U), the rate of inflation actually fell for the quarter ending September 30, 2009, compared to the same period a year earlier. (Remember, gasoline prices, which spiked during 2008 and impacted numerous other expenses, subsided considerably in 2009.)
Those whose bills have continued to rise probably would debate whether it was actually cheaper to live in 2009 than in 2008. Regardless, this is an important statistic because the IRS uses the third-quarter CPI-U to determine whether dozens of tax-related numbers such as income tax bracket limits and maximum retirement savings plan contributions will stay the same or increase in the following tax year.
The good news is that although many savers feared that retirement plan contribution limits might actually drop for the first time ever, the IRS determined that provisions in the Social Security Act prohibit such reductions. The bad news, for those who would have liked to increase such contributions next year, is that they cannot do so.
Even worse, because inflation was so low, for the first time in decades, Social Security beneficiaries will not receive a cost-of-living benefit increase in 2010, even though Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) premiums are expected to rise.
On the mixed news front, the IRS left unchanged most tax deductions that are subject to annual inflation adjustments, although a few did creep up slightly. Here's a summary of some common tax benchmarks:
• Federal personal tax exemptions remain constant at $3,650 per individual.
• The standard tax deduction for heads of households increases by just $50 to $8,400. It remains unchanged at $11,400 for married couples filing jointly and $5,700 for singles and those who are married but file separately.
• Various tax bracket thresholds will increase slightly – for example, the threshold between the 15 percent and 25 percent tax brackets for married couples filing jointly increases by $100 to $68,000.
• The annual gift tax exclusion remains unchanged at $13,000.
• The Social Security taxable wage base (upper income limit subject to Social Security taxes) remains unchanged at $106,800.
• The maximum annual contribution to 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans remains unchanged at $16,500 (plus an additional $5,500 for those over age 50). The annual limit for combined employee and employer contributions to such plans remains at $49,000.
• The maximum contribution to a regular or Roth IRA remains unchanged at $5,000 (those aged 50 and older can contribute an additional $1,000).
• Married couples filing jointly will see the amount they can contribute to a Roth IRA gradually phased out if their adjusted gross income exceeds $167,000 – a $1,000 increase over 2009's level; the phase-out limitation floor for others remains unchanged at $105,000.
• Check www.irs.gov for other 2010 tax changes.
Bottom line: In 2010, inflation pays a very minor role in terms of tax threshold changes compared to previous years.
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Bow selectmen seek options after voters reject proposals to repair police, fire stationsBy SUSAN CLARK
Union Leader Correspondent
March 28. 2014 9:38PM
BOW — The Board of Selectmen has work to do if members want to convince voters to spend money on addressing fire and police station code and space issues or build a safety complex next year.
On March 24, during the second half of the annual Town Meeting, voters rejected two proposals — a $4.6 million plan to renovate the existing fire station and community center and $1.7 million proposal to renovate the existing police station — by 483-6 and 484-8 votes, respectively. If approved, the warrants would have allowed the town to bring the buildings up to code.
On March 13, voters rejected a $6.8 million proposal by a 425-257 vote for a new public safety building to house the fire, police and emergency management departments. After nearly four hours, the meeting was continued to March 24 to decide on the remaining warrants.
Voters also rejected a petitioned $225,000 warrant to repair the fire/community building's electrical wiring and kitchen venting system.
Selectmen have begun the discussion of where to head next, said Town Manager David Stack. The board is scheduled to discuss the matter at its next meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday April 8, at the Bow Municipal Building Meeting Room A.
"Unfortunately, no funding was approved by the town's voters to do the amount of work that is needed to come into compliance with life safety codes and ADA requirements," Stack said.
Looming deadline
The town has until September 2016 to bring the fire station up to code, per an order from the state fire marshal. According to the fire marshal's report last year, the major issues are crumbling asbestos walls, a consistently damp basement with standing water, vintage electrical wiring, no private area to meet with patients, pedestrian and vehicle traffic dangers, inadequate storage and office space, interior and exterior building decay and the lack of equipment decontamination areas. The garage overhead clearance is limited for fire engines.
In addition, the town spends about $12,000 a year to heat the fire station. In October, the town was able to move firefighters' overnight living quarters to the rescue building in the back of the station.
"The fire marshal's order is still in effect. They often give communities a three-year time period to come into compliance, which is the case with the order that has been issued to the town of Bow," said Stack. "One of the most important items that needs to be done is to create a fire separation between the fire garage areas of the building and the assembly space on the community building side, including the walls and doors. This cannot be done without any funding."
DPW in violation
The police station also contains the town's Department of Public Works and must also be brought up to building, fire and safety codes and into compliance with the American Disability Act, said Stack. The facility was built in the 1980s as a public works building.
Voters also vetoed spending $50,000 on a community building options study and a proposal to allow the town manager to appoint the fire chief.
However, voters approved spending $190,000 for a new Public Works Department loader and allocating $150,000 to the library's capital reserve fund and $65,000 to the fire truck capital reserve fund.
Last year, voters failed to approve a $7.7 million bond to build a 30,000-square-foot public safety facility by 20 votes.
Selectmen trimmed this year's proposal in the hopes of gaining community support.


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